Dobriansky Paula Quotes & Sayings

We don't want to be prejudging outcomes here," she said of US opposition to scientific guidelines for rich nations to cut emissions by 25-40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. "We dont want to be predetermining what will come out of this process. — Paula Dobriansky

It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences. — Moby

The future will be different from how they have told us — John Nexdar

Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese. — Gene Perret

We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with. — Aaron D. O'Connell

Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.' — Astro Teller

Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions. — Sigmund Freud

I look better, feel better, make love better and I'll tell you something else ... I never lied better. — George Burns

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering - that is a fact. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

We want the world's largest economies, including the United States, to be part of a global arrangement. An approach in which only some are committed to acting cannot be environmentally effective. — Paula Dobriansky

Seize every opportunity to fulfill your calling. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I, personally, would be shocked if we went to the end of the tape now and I didn't have at least one ... Look, even if I don't get one directly, eventually they're just going to have to give me one when I get old. So no matter how you slice it, I'm getting one. — Robert Downey Jr.

Meg was a great reader and was never without a book; while walking to school she often had one open in her hands, so engrossed she would sometimes trip while navigating familiar streets. — Alice Hoffman

Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating? — Charles Krauthammer

People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about. — Larry McMurtry